EP 0128236 B1 19870128 - ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR STORING SPENT FUEL RODS
Title (en)
ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR STORING SPENT FUEL RODS
Publication
Application
Priority
DE 3320071 A 19830603
Abstract (en)
[origin: US4636351A] A packing assembly comprises a transport and storage container with a jacket, bottom and a head part for receiving the fuel rods from preferably two nuclear reactor fuel assemblies and arranging the rods in the densest possible packing, preferably in a hexagonal array packing. The packing assembly further comprises a dense-packing device surrounding the transport and storage container and a guide tube bundle or baffle plate guide for introducing the fuel rods from a fuel assembly into the dense-packing device. The transport and storage container and the dense-packing device are designed so that the bottom of the container can be decoupled therefrom and inserted into the dense-packing device. The guide tube bundle or baffle plate guide is removably insertable into the dense-packing device. The dense-packing device includes clamping means for compressing the introduced fuel rods into a hexagonal array. Upon insertion of the jacket of the transport and storage container into the dense-packing device and coupling of the jacket to the bottom element, the densely packed fuel rod bundle can be removed from the dense-packing device.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G21C 19/06 (2006.01); G21C 19/32 (2006.01); G21C 19/36 (2006.01); G21F 5/00 (2006.01); G21F 5/008 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP KR US)
G21C 3/14 (2013.01 - KR); G21C 19/32 (2013.01 - EP US); G21C 19/36 (2013.01 - EP US); G21F 5/008 (2013.01 - EP US); Y02E 30/30 (2013.01 - EP)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
BE CH DE FR LI SE
DOCDB simple family (publication)
US 4636351 A 19870113; DE 3320071 A1 19841206; DE 3369587 D1 19870305; EP 0128236 A1 19841219; EP 0128236 B1 19870128; JP H0333238 B2 19910516; JP S607395 A 19850116; KR 850000727 A 19850309
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 60239584 A 19840420; DE 3320071 A 19830603; DE 3369587 T 19830801; EP 83107568 A 19830801; JP 11286884 A 19840601; KR 840000798 A 19840220